New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-02
THE STANCH MOHICAN HERE.
SAFE IN PORT AFTER AN EvENTFUL voY-
AGE.
ANCHORED BESIDE THE THISTLE, WHICH RECEIVES
Her WITH BLUE FIRE AND RocKETs-THE
PEOPLE ON BOARD oF THE NFMcoMrR

HER WITH BLUE FIRE AND RocKRTs-rHE
PEOPLE ON BOARD OF THE NEWCOMER
Sky rockets and blue lights from the Thistle
henlded the arrival OF the Scotch steam yacht
Mohican last night. 1t was about 7:l5 o. m.
when the most beautiful craft OF her kind that
graces the waters of the Clyde came to an anchor.
| age of Tompkinsville, Staten Island, just at tho
| stern of the racer As she rounded to anchor her
crew answered tho demonstration with which they
were received by cheering the Thistle again
| and again.
| She was somewhat tho worse for her ocean
voyage, as she was roughly handled by the winds
and waves She left Glasgow on August l6
Intending to come directly to New-Yorl1. and she
was expected here on Sunday last but on the
evening of that day dispatches were received
that she had put in at Halifax after an unusually
stormy voyage, with the shipwrecked crew of the
ship Lillian, of st. Johns, N b. on board, She
only remained at Halifax long enough to coal.
and thence made fast and uneventful run to
her destination
The Mohican is herself pleasure yacht, though
She possesses speed enough to insure her good
place In race against any steamer of her size.
She is about 207 feet Ong.and her greatest breadth
Is about twenty-sevcn feet Her total tonnage
Is about 700 Her saloon is furnished like
drawing room, and her cabins are equally elegant
She has all the latest improvements including
electric lighting
The passengers who have crossed in he TO
hican are all more less interested in the Thistle
and her owners, the Clarlzs of Paisley are also
to large extent owners of the racing yacht
lhe Clarls are extensive thread manufacturers in
Paisley, and member of the family is engaged
in the same business in Newark The following
is the Mohican's passenger list; j. c. Clark, W.
Clark, r. Clark, J. Clark and Dr. James Donald,
Paisley; j. b, Hilliard, Glasgow: W. B. Chal-
Toner, Kilmarmocl<; George A. Ballentine and r.
w. Cummings, New-Yorly Their object in cross
Ing the Atlantic is, of course. to see the race for
the Americas cup. The same party, with O
few ladies, gave the Caledonian champion a
convoy down the Clyde on her departure
Since the Mohican started to come here rumors
have been abroad that she intended TO challenge
some OF the crack" American steam yachto,
but her owners disavow any such intention, and
Captain Kerr, of the Thistle, who is in position
to know, recently assured a TRIBUNE reporter
that the Clarks wanted to "see the fun and that
they were content to have only one yacht racing
at q time.
Naturally there was q good deal of fratcrnizng
among the Mohicans and Thistle boys last night.
Some of the cutters racing complement were on
the steamer. and they will be transferred to
their proper quarters soon as possible
The story of the Mohcan's twelve days voyage
from Glasgow to Halifax is an exceedingly inter-
esting one, and her log reads like an Oi-time
tale or the sea. The saving of the Lllian's
crew is one of the most remarkable and chival-
rous rescucs of modern maritime annals Tho
Mohican had been laborng with heavy seas al
most from the day she headed out into the Attain
tic swell. On the 22d Monday she encountered
hurricane, and on the following Friday, two days
before she reached Halifax she again caught the
full force Of n hurricane blowing great guns from
the south. She is a boat of extraordinary sea-
worthiness. or she never could have lived through
such Tempest. Az it was, she did not come OFT
scathless, for huge wave that crashed on her port
bulwarks broke portion OF them in. She lost her
jibboOuI, and was otherwise damaged consider
ably. Sho passed several ships that had come to
grief in the storms that swept the and next
dav she sighted dismantled snip, disuasted.
board and not boat lett to which they could
trust themselves. Though the wind still blew with
great violence, aud the sea ran high, the Scotsmen
determined to take them on board, and hid IT.
state of the elements that the l:fe-boat launched
could not approach close enough to the Lllian-as
was afterward found to be the name of the wrecked
vessel-and her occupants, among whom were two
women, the captain's wife and the stewardess. had
to leap into the seething waves and be pieked mp
by the Mohican's boats crew. Again. ON az,
preaching tho steam yacht, they had to imperil
their lives by taking tJ the water, and graspinS
buoys flung to them from the yacht.
Altogether, the Mohicans story is thrilling one:
and Captain Mackinnon and his crew are veil
worthy of some public and marked recognition OF
their extraordinary galIantry. The Lillian which
was bound from Rotterdam to Nsw-York with
dred miles east of Halifax and had then been forty
two days ont. Captain Mackinnon made Halifax
safely at midnight. He says that the weather cx-
perienced was unusual as 1t was undesirable.
The attractions of Tompkinsvillc now that the
Mohican is anchored in company with the Thistle.
will DO doubled and the rush of visitors to that
part of Staten Island is likely to receive new
impetus to-day.